Camacho (left) Rodriguez (right) – Photos via Courtesy/CBS/Paramount Plus

CBS is ready to expand on their holiday lineup this year by adding more original content, including two movies starring network stars. In the announcement of the 2021-2022 primetime programming lineup today, the network included information on both of the CBS Original Movies: A Christmas Proposal, starring Jessica Camacho (“All Rise”) and Adam Rodriguez (“CSI: Miami”, “Criminal Minds”), and Christmas Takes Flight — cast currently unknown.

(Update: 7/8/21) – CBS announced today the production has begun for Christmas Takes Flight in British Columbia, Canada, and the film will star Katie Lowes (“Scandal”, “Smallwood”) and Evan Williams (“Versailles”, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”).

A CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL
Maria (Camacho) is a down-on-her-luck chef who dreams of starting her own line of food trucks agrees to pose as the girlfriend of a hotshot Seattle attorney named Julian (Rodriguez) visiting his family for Christmas. Working together, they try to prove he’s the ideal candidate to take over the family firm, but their business arrangement is complicated by the magic of the season as real sparks begin to fly.

Lowes (left) Williams (right) – Photos via Facebook/IMDb

CHRISTMAS TAKES FLIGHT
A holiday battle of wills between pilot Jenny Beckett (Lowes) and Matt Connor (Williams), a number-crunching CEO who purchases Jenny’s family-owned, regional airline. Matt’s cost-cutting initiatives threaten Christmas when he cancels the airline’s annual holiday charitable benefit for underserved children. Determined to show Matt that the sweetest things in life are worth any price, Jenny rallies the community to help save the event and unexpectedly finds herself falling for the magnate in the process.

Both films are produced by Motion Picture Corporation of America. 

More on the full CBS Holiday 2021 lineup will be available as we get closer to most festive time of the year, but I think we can expect to see some of the annual events and classic animated traditions.

Stay merry!